Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Postwar Britain"”.
-
Voices of the Cold War in Britain, 1945 - 1962
… first oral history of everyday life in Cold War Britain it examines the generation born before1945 and the experience of growing up in postwar Britain. The thesis situates these oral histories within the changing emotional landscape that contextualised Britain's Cold War, comparing and …
-
Transport Choice and the Fragmentation of Mobility in Britain, 1959-1974
… expanding suburban and extra-urban locations of postwar Britain are also explored, to see how men and women perceived the car, bus, and railways according to the different social factors facing them. What is uncovered is that although transport choice was fragmented by location, class, gender, …
-
‘We Shift You’: Experimental Infrastructures, Race, Gender, and Unity and Difference in Britain, 1980–97
… context of race ‘coming home’ (Stuart Hall) in postwar Britain. The four infrastructures are: a friendship group of art students in Leeds (1981–84); Bazaar: South Asian Arts Magazine (1987–92); Panchayat archive (c. 1992–2003); and Horizon Gallery (1987–91). None have been the focus of any major …
-
An Oral History of England International Rugby Union Players, 1945-1995
… of both British sport and post-war Britain more generally, arguing for consideration of social continuity among a field largely dominated by notions of change. It also constitutes a unique study of a particular group of middle-class men, and demonstrates that sport – and oral history …
-
Towards a Deregulated Domesticity: The Making of 'Homes for Today and Tomorrow'
The current debate on space standards in Britain revolves around the name of Sir Parker Morris; the Chairman of a sub-committee that published, perhaps, the most influential and architecturally appraised, report on space standards: Homes for Today and Tomorrow (1961). The report was the first to …
-
Britain and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-49
… Europe. Rather, this undertaking catalysed Britain’s political and public confrontation with Nazism, laying some of the most significant and durable foundations of the postwar Anglo-German relationship. This research utilises contemporary mass media sources and official records to explore …